Months after settling a sexual misconduct lawsuit, James Franco said he has been “doing a lot of work” on himself.
of “The Jess Cagle Podcast,” recorded earlier this month, Franco stated that he had slept with some of his students at Studio 4. He denied that he was creating a “pipeline” for sexual exploitation, as he was accused of doing in his capacity as a teacher, but said he did not factor in the power imbalance.“Look, I’ll admit, I did sleep with students.
Studio 4, which had locations in New York and Los Angeles, shut down a few months before the Times report ran. Franco said he opened the school in 2014 after taking note of how expensive tuition was for the graduate film programs in which he taught. He ran Studio 4 in between other teaching and acting gigs.
Former Studio 4 students have said nudity was often required of them. Franco said on the podcast that he was not aware of any nudity requirements. He also stated that the name of his Sex Scenes class was not indicative of what he actually taught, and that it was instead a “provocative title” for a class that explored modern dating and relationships.Some of his students did end up working on his projects.
Franco repeated in the episode that he has “just been doing a lot of work” over the past four years. He attributed some of the behavior in question to a history with addiction, stemming from his alcohol abuse as a teen, and said he “really used my recovery background to start examining this and changing who I was.”
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